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I think this has been reported before but as far as I know there was no official response to the issue. The edit post function is acting weird. Every now and then, you'll just get a blank text box when you try to edit one of your posts, preventing any kind of edits. Especially annoying if you've written a long list or a guide. It also appears as if these posts are then "tagged" with this bug, meaning that it persists even in later sessions (i.e. after browser or even machine restart).

I usually get it when I try to edit a post more than once, independent of session. Sometimes it even occurs shortly after succesfully editing once (that is, the second edit fails). If I note any further regularities, I'll post them here. Thanks for looking into this!

Edit (phew, it worked this time): I've just tried to edit one of my posts of which I know that it has been affected by the bug in the past, on a different machine than the one I've created the post on, after over a month of the bug happening for the first time. The blank edit box still persists.

I ran into a similar problem with post #1 of the onward march: it was caused by the inclusion of non-english characters, think french accented letters and stuff like that.

My kludgy fix was to copy the text of the post, then press edit and paste the post; edit and make sure to remove the offending characters. The only side effect is the introduction of foreign formatting, which in my case, I had to get rid of manually.

My kludgy fix was to copy the text of the post, then press edit and paste the post; edit and make sure to remove the offending characters. The only side effect is the introduction of foreign formatting, which in my case, I had to get rid of manually.

It's happened to me enough when trying to edit just any old post where I might have made a spelling or grammar mistake. Often on my cell phone, so I thought the problem might have been with the mobile browser. Guess that's not the case, and glad I'm not alone.

I second the copy/paste method as a work-around, but it still suxx0rz3Z.